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Nat Commun

Title:		Displays of paternal mouse pup retrieval following communicative interaction with maternal mates
Author(s):		Liu HX; Lopatina O; Higashida C; Fujimoto H; Akther S; Inzhutova A; Liang M; Zhong J; Tsuji T; Yoshihara T; Sumi K; Ishiyama M; Ma WJ; Ozaki M; Yagitani S; Yokoyama S; Mukaida N; Sakurai T; Hori O; Yoshioka K; Hirao A; Kato Y; Ishihara K; Kato I; Okamoto H; Cherepanov SM; Salmina AB; Hirai H; Asano M; Brown DA; Nagano I; Higashida H;
Address:		"Kanazawa University 21st Century COE Program on Innovative Brain Science on Development, Learning and Memory, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan"
Journal Title:		Nat Commun
Year:		2013
Volume:		4
Issue:
Page Number:		1346 -
DOI:		10.1038/ncomms2336
ISSN/ISBN:		2041-1723 (Electronic) 2041-1723 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Compared with the knowledge of maternal care, much less is known about the factors required for paternal parental care. Here we report that new sires of laboratory mice, though not spontaneously parental, can be induced to show maternal-like parental care (pup retrieval) using signals from dams separated from their pups. During this interaction, the maternal mates emit 38-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations to their male partners, which are equivalent to vocalizations that occur following pheromone stimulation. Without these signals or in the absence of maternal mates, the sires do not retrieve their pups within 5 min. These results show that, in mice, the maternal parent communicates to the paternal parent to encourage pup care. This new paradigm may be useful in the analysis of the parental brain during paternal care induced by interactive communication"
Keywords:		"Animals Animals, Newborn Auditory Perception/physiology Cues Female Male Maternal Behavior Mice Mice, Inbred ICR Olfactory Perception/physiology Sexual Behavior, Animal/*physiology *Social Behavior Ultrasonics Vocalization, Animal/*physiology;"
Notes:		"MedlineLiu, Hong-Xiang Lopatina, Olga Higashida, Chiharu Fujimoto, Hiroko Akther, Shirin Inzhutova, Alena Liang, Mingkun Zhong, Jing Tsuji, Takahiro Yoshihara, Toru Sumi, Kohei Ishiyama, Mizuho Ma, Wen-Jie Ozaki, Mitsunori Yagitani, Satoshi Yokoyama, Shigeru Mukaida, Naofumi Sakurai, Takeshi Hori, Osamu Yoshioka, Katsuji Hirao, Atsushi Kato, Yukio Ishihara, Katsuhiko Kato, Ichiro Okamoto, Hiroshi Cherepanov, Stanislav M Salmina, Alla B Hirai, Hirokazu Asano, Masahide Brown, David A Nagano, Isamu Higashida, Haruhiro eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2013/01/10 Nat Commun. 2013; 4:1346. doi: 10.1038/ncomms2336"